Grandma’s Gangsta Chicken Curry and Gangsta Stories from My Hippie Sixties

by Rahman, Azly Abdul

• ISBN13: 9789814882118
• ISBN10: 9814882119
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-05-11
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

He is no longer him, today. At ten, he saw a chicken beheaded in his backyard, he too, an accomplice. He roamed his village, sometimes barefoot, wading through streams, backyards of his neighbors’ houses where young men were high, smoking ganja. He once saw a group of men in red headbands with Arabic words on them, ready to march to the capital city to slaughter many. He fought demons, wept when the family dog died battling a cobra. He saw men in a trance, munching on broken glasses and hibiscus petals, high on Javanese trance-dance music, turning into horses. A spaceship landed on the school field. He thought he died, shot by Martians. He was saved from being a Taliban. Saved by the music of the American Hippies. He confronted a boy in a green robe and white turban, preaching jihad against Western music. He chased the young mullah out of the school. His story told in the language of the Sixties. Of Beat poetry. Of rap, joyfully, he now narrates with melancholy.

Author Biography

Dr Azly Rahman grew up in Johor Bahru, Malaysia and holds a Columbia University (New York City) doctorate in International Education Development and Masters degrees in six fields of study: Education, International Affairs, Peace Studies, Communication, Creative Non-Fiction, and Fiction Writing. He has written more than 350 analyses/essays on Malaysia. His 30 years of teaching experience in Malaysia and the United States spans over a wide range of subjects, from elementary to graduate education. He is a frequent contributor to scholarly online forums in Malaysia, the USA, Greece, and Montenegro

Table of Contents

1. Grandma’s Gangsta Chicken Curry 2. A Time of Screaming and Slaughtering 3. Appeasing Pain 4. Dead Village Talking 5. Fourteen Nights They Died 6. Men Loving Men 7. Grandpa’s Kite 8. Blackie’s Blackest Day 9. Run! It’s An Alien Invasion! 10. The Velocity of My Memory 11. My Years of Living in Rock 12. My Gangsta Groovy Goal 13. Stinking Democracy 14. Ramadan, Einstein and a Memory 15. Summoning the Supernatural in Me 16. Poetry of My Hippie Sixties 17. Snippets From My Memory Palace